And Thou, all-Shaking Thunder A Theological Notation to Lines 1-38 of King Lear, Act III, Scene II
In the dramas of Shakespeare, the madman and the fool speak in prose; wisdom and sanity are properly poeticised. King Lear is no exception: I go some way in providing a theological notation to a crucial moment of Lear's descent into madness, the fracturing of his blank verse into prose. Is the...
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| Format: | Electronic Article |
| Language: | English |
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MDPI
[2017]
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Religions
Year: 2017, Volume: 8, Issue: 5, Pages: 1-14 |
| Further subjects: | B
Hans Blumenberg
B Shakespeare and Theology B Wrath B Poetry and Religion B Foolishness |
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| Summary: | In the dramas of Shakespeare, the madman and the fool speak in prose; wisdom and sanity are properly poeticised. King Lear is no exception: I go some way in providing a theological notation to a crucial moment of Lear's descent into madness, the fracturing of his blank verse into prose. Is the storm on the heath a representation of the turmoil of his mind? Or is it a theophany, the manifestation of divine displeasure at human foolishness? Finding between the verse and the prose the theological tradition of Christianity will allow us to negotiate this question and to understand a little more clearly the peculiar wisdom of poetry for Christianity. |
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| ISSN: | 2077-1444 |
| Contains: | Enthalten in: Religions
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| Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.3390/rel8050091 |